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'Chowdhury' ( Bengali: চৌধুরী,Hindi: चौधरी ) is a term in Indo-Aryan languages, literally meaning "holder of four". Choudhury (also spellt Chaudhary, Chowdhury, Chaudhury, Chaudhry, Choudhary, Chowdhery, Chaudhary, or Choudhry) is a hereditary title of honor, awarded by Moghul Emperors to persons of eminence. Traditionally, the term is used as a title indicating the ownership of ancestral land, but in contemporary usage it is often taken as a surname or title.
During the Moghul era, a Taluqa or District usually consisted of 84 villages and a central town. The Taluqdar was required to collect taxes, maintain law and order, and provide military supplies and manpower to the provincial Government. In most cases the Taluqdars were entitled to retain a tenth of the collected revenue. However, some privileged Taluqdars were entitled to a quarter and hence were called Chowdhury, which also literally means owner of the fourth part.According to the Glossary of Punjab Castes, the Talukdars Minhas and Kassar tribes of the Dhanni country (present day Chakwal) in the northwest of Punjab were among the first few to receive this honorific title from the Mughal Emperor, Zaheerudin Babur around the Empire. During the Mughal era, this title was only conferred upon a few privileged.
Aamir Hussain Khan (pronounced [ˈaːmɪr ˈxaːn]) (born 14 March 1965) is an Indian film actor, director and producer who has established himself as one of the leading actors of Hindi cinema.
Starting his career as a child actor in his uncle Nasir Hussain's film Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973), Khan began his professional career eleven years later with Holi (1984) and had his first commercial success with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988). He received his first National Film Award as a Special Jury Award for his roles in the films Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988) and Raakh (1989). After eight previous nominations during the 1980s and 1990s, Khan received his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor for his performance in the major grosser Raja Hindustani (1996) and later earned his second Best Actor award for his performance in the Academy Award-nominated Lagaan, which also marked the debut of his own production company.
Following a four-year break from acting, Khan made his comeback playing the title role in the historical Mangal Pandey: The Rising (2005), and later won a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for his role in Rang De Basanti (2006). The following year, he made his directorial debut with Taare Zameen Par, for which he received a Filmfare Award for Best Director. This was followed by Ghajini (2008), which became the highest grossing film of that year, and 3 Idiots (2009), which became the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all-time, unadjusted for inflation. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2003 and the Padma Bhushan in 2010 for his contributions towards the arts.
Raja Chaudhary is the estranged husband of television actress Shweta Tiwari. Raja came to Mumbai with a dream to make it big ,
Chaudhary played a villain in the Bhojpuri film Saiyyan Hamar Hindustani opposite Shweta Tiwari. He has also acted in the television serials Your Honour, Daddy Samjha Karo,Chandramukhi and Aane Wala Pal. He was featured in a TV serial called Black (loosely based on Hollywood Omen (film)) on 9X Channel, directed by Sunil Agnihotri.
He was nominated for eviction a record five times and was saved on each occasion by his followers. Despite eventually finishing second-best to contestant Ashutosh Kaushik because of what the media has labeled a sympathy vote,
Chaudhary hails from Uttar Pradesh. He married Shweta Tiwari in the year 1998. The couple featured together in season 2 of the reality dance show Nach Baliye. On November 20, 2010, he was arrested by the police for beating his girlfriend Shradha Sharma, at his Oshiwara residence.
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Plot: Mumbai-based Nandkumar Sharma is a high-priced hit-man. He is paid a princely 1.5 Crore Rupees to injure Anna Mhatre, so that the later can get enough 'sympathy' votes to get him elected as the next Chief Minister, but ends up killing him. On the run from the Police, he ends up assuming the guise of Hoshiyarpur's Puran Singh, who has been away from home for the last 18 years, and does succeed in fooling Puran's joint family. But his hopes for settling there appear to be in vain with the arrival of a CBI Team, led by Inspector Mahendra Kumar Rane - who is determined to expose and arrest Nandkumar at any and all costs.
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